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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1939
Page
3
Shafter residents host and visit family during Christmas and New Year holidays. Local couples and individuals travel to Los Angeles Pasadena and southern California for events including the Tournament of Roses parade and Rose Bowl game. New homes cars and anniversaries mark a busy holiday season with many reunions and return trips to Shafter.
Ray Ferguson spent New Year week in southern California attending Pasadena events and the Rose Bowl game with Dick Kummerfeld of Wasco. Lena Shultz and companions visited Los Angeles and Pasadena for New Years and the Tournament of Roses parade while Ribena Shultz stayed in LA as a Bible Institute student. Mr and Mrs A H Winkels moved from Lerdo road to a new home near the D O Moore cotton gin. he works with Shafter Furniture, she with Shafter Bazaar. Doctor Kenneth W Blaylock and Mrs Blaylock visited T V Little in Shafter before returning to Salinas after Pasadena events. Howard Moise of UC Berkeley visited Shafter to study migratory camps for a low-cost housing course.
Mr and Mrs E J Thiessen drove to Los Angeles for New Year weekend and attended the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena on Monday Their son Lowell remained in the south to attend school Vernon Pierce and family visited Petaluma staying with Mr and Mrs Showalter Former Shafter residents They toured the Bay Area visiting R C A radio station at Point Reyes and Hamilton Field to view a squadron of new army bombers
The Janes home in Shafter hosted Mrs. J Douglas Campbell and Mr. J Douglas Campbell of Bakersfield. Mr. and Mrs. Manville Pettys of Delano attended. Miss Patricia Janes of Portland, Oregon, spent the holidays there and plans to return to Portland next week.
Mr and Mrs Z C Bartel with Mr and Mrs H C Janzen spent the New Year weekend in southern California visiting Long Beach friends and watching the Rose Parade. They drove home Monday after a brief stay. Dr and Mrs Taylor Tabb holidayed in Gilroy visiting Mrs Tabb s brother and wife and in Morgan Hill visiting the Osborns. Miss Betty Spry rode back to Shafter with them after Christmas in Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
Mr and Mrs Warren Ranney of the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Los Angeles will discuss methods to present Christ to children and describe their work. They will speak Sunday at 7 30 pm in the First Baptist church and Monday at 3 30 pm in the Mennonite Brethren church. Visual aids graphs charts and Bible material used in child evangelism will be shown and explained. All interested are invited to attend both meetings.
M. J. Thomas of the Shafter Bank of America predicts a year of improved business for the Shafter area. He cites the bank’s 1938 performance and expects travel, loan services, and economic activity to accelerate trade. He quotes A. P. Giannini on California’s momentum.
City Clerk Frank Shaw announces that Shafter quarterly business licenses are due before January 15. Firms renewing late face a 25 percent penalty. notices are being prepared for local businessmen.
Members of the Union Congregational church and interested persons will meet Tuesday evening at the church parlors to discuss a constitution and appoint committees for the year. The Rev. Alfred T. Chandler will call the meeting to order at 8 p.m. A membership, finance and music committee are likely to be named, with further groups to follow.
Kern county junior chamber of commerce will hold its first open meeting Tuesday at 8 pm in the chamber of commerce building Bakersfield. Monroe Brown secretary says any civic minded man 21 to 35 may attend. The group aims to promote a winter sports program and over 150 are expected.
A Kern County report by Roy Galven of the State Highway Patrol states traffic deaths fell in 1938 to 126 from 130 in 1937 despite more travel on county highways.
A letter from Richland grammar school Principal O T Olson, on behalf of the children, thanked the Shafter Business Men's association for a recent Christmas party. At the Friday Cafe Neuman meeting, H Midgley projected rapid progress on the city sidewalk project, and Belridge road work resumed after rain delays with completion expected within a few weeks.
W O Phillips of Visalia plans a hardware store to open about February first in the Klassen building on Pacific avenue. He was a Shafter visitor Monday and expects to move with his family to Shafter mid month. He formerly managed the Rocky Hill hardware department in Exeter.
Harold G. Tefft of Berkeley has been appointed assistant manager of the Shafter Farm Workers' camp and will work with manager Charles Barry in an executive capacity. Tefft, formerly a principal of several Bay Area high schools, was named to the post by regional officials.
The FSA announces a leadership change with an interim successor taking over from Kinkead, who has held the post since August.
Historians of the National Park Service show an anagram using letters from Hidalgo to identify the historic Texas town now called Goliad. The town formerly bore the name Presidio of La Bahia del Espiritu Santo in early records.
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